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“Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online

Yesterday I delivered my talk, “Build Your Own MVVM Framework,” at Mix. Thanks to all who came out to listen and allow me a short time to share some of my ideas. I’m very grateful to have had this opportunity. Thanks also to all who...

Published 03-16-2010 6:37 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture

MVVM Study Part 5: Convention over Configuration

In the last par t I showed a very basic view model. I needed something in order to give those new to the concept of MVVM a concrete example. However, there are several aspects of that example that left me feeling uncomfortable; not to mention the myriad...

Published 12-14-2009 5:33 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, RIA

MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF

I’ve blogged previously about the MVVM pattern, but so far I have managed to escape without showing any code ;) Before diving in deeper, I would like to stop and show what it takes to do a very simple implementation of this pattern on top of naked...

Published 11-13-2009 10:47 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, MVVM, UI Architecture

NHProf and Caliburn Testability

I’ve heard some developers asking about UI testing lately. Specifically, there have been some questions about what we did with NHProf. So, I thought I would write a little bit about that here. There are a variety of different types of tests you...

Published 10-30-2009 3:07 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, databinding, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, MVVM, UI Architecture, NHProf

Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0!

Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed...

Published 10-26-2009 1:06 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture

MVVM Study Part 3 – Why?

There are several major architectural approaches used in building user interfaces. MVC, MVP and MVVM seam to be the most popular of the bunch. From among them, MVVM has risen to the top of the stack for WPF and Silverlight developers. Even ignoring the...

Published 09-01-2009 4:39 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, Control Templates, WPF/e, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture

MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies - Introduction

There’s been a lot of talk lately about MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in the WPF and Silverlight space. Recently, Ward Bell had an interesting post on the subject where he digs into some of the patterns he is using to support his MVVM triads. The...

Published 07-07-2009 10:49 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, MVVM, UI Architecture

Caliburn v1 Release Candidate

On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies...

Published 06-13-2009 12:19 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight

MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn

Recently Glenn Block asked some questions of the community concerning what support Microsoft should offer for the MVVM design pattern in WPF/Silverlight. I’d like to answer that question here, but in a round-about manner. I’m going to use...

Published 05-18-2009 10:51 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Silverlight, RIA

The Caliburn Beta is Live

Today is a long awaited day for me. Caliburn is now in official Beta. There have been many bug fixes and a ton of new features since the Alpha release last October. We’ve also been dogfooding it on several projects, one of which is...

Published 02-26-2009 9:15 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA

Unit Test WPF Data Bindings with Caliburn

The Caliburn.Testability assembly contains various classes related to unit testing a UI. You can use the BindingValidator to validate data bindings on DependencyObjects, DataTemplates and Styles. The easiest way to access this functionality is through...

Published 10-25-2008 9:38 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured

Caliburn Moved and Documentation Added!

Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex . You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn . Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online . The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created...

Published 10-21-2008 11:23 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Silverlight

Silverlight Problems That Affect Me

I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not...

Published 07-26-2008 6:58 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA

Caliburn Tutorial Part 2

Hadi has just posted part 2 of his tutorial on building composite applications with Caliburn. In this post he covers basic usage of the EventBroker, ActionMessages and shows one way of putting the pieces together by using the PresenterHost control. Great...

Published 06-05-2008 10:42 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Silverlight, Tutorial

Off to the Printers!

The WPF book Christopher and I wrote earlier this year is finally off to the printers! It's 480 pages of full color goodness. We were pretty excited to have the opportunity to talk about things like SoC/SRP, DI, MVP, etc within the context of building...

Published 06-04-2008 4:13 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, Control Templates, Animation, 3D, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Silverlight

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